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I visited there and as others have pointed out, it's in a north-south running valley, so it loses an hour of sunlight in the morning and an hour of sunlight in the evening.
I was enraptured by the project ever since I saw it in the late lamented Whole Earth Review. I was driving across country and made a detour to see it.
I'm glad it was built and we learned a lot from it. I'm not a fan of billionaires but good on Ed Bass for financing it.
For more than a decade, one of the most rewarding blueprints for making money online was to “start a blog.“
I can't believe this sentence exists.
Seriously Crassus. I know the idea of a rich bastard who starts fires and then makes money putting them out is unbelievable in our modern age but it was a real thing.
By 2016, the gap had begun to appear in biomarker measures. By 2020, it was showing up in deaths from causes such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Since then, the gap has only widened. Between 2020 and 2022, only 0.2% of “very liberal” respondents died of internal causes, compared with 1.34% of “very conservative” respondents.
again
I have attracted the downvote bot, it seems.
I don't know if this is true any more, but esquire used to have an extremely good journalistic reputation. If someone said the the sun rose in the east, they would verify the sun rose in the east before printing it.
It's amazing how scary an obvious puppet in a grocery cart can be.
I had a model F, I loved it. Then the H key stopped working. I knew from previous experience that trying to fix them never went well, so it went to the shelf and eventually to the garbage.
They were only about $100 on ebay at the time though.
In a similar vein, If I had to explain what javascript was to someone non-technical I would say "you know all that crap that covers up a web site you are trying to look at? That's javascript."
dickover n. : a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction
I believed Steve Gibson about lastpass, then about bitwarden.
Why do we kiss Pakistan and Israel's ass? They have nukes. Why do we shit on Iraq and Iran? They don't.
I learned about Dunbar’s number
(~150) is the size of a community in which everyone knows each other’s identities and roles.
In anthropology class. You can ask someone to write down the name of everyone they can think of, real or fictional, live or dead and most people will not make it to 250.
Some individuals like professional gossip columnists or some politicians can remember as many as 1,000 people.
When are they going to release Hunter Biden's laptop? The FBI has it. (supposedly)
With age comes four molecular hallmarks: chronic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, genome instability, and epigenetic changes. Recent findings have pinpointed the epigenome as a major driver of physiological aging.
Two mushrooms walk into a bar.
The bartender says "You can't come in here."
They say "Oh C'mon we're fun guys!"
Like celebrity deaths, news about RwR comes in threes.
I'm going to repurpose a quote I saw from a 'distinguished' (old) science fiction writer, I can't remember who.
I know writers who have stopped selling, but I don't know any writers who have stopped writing.
Yes I did find that paper, I did not find which one of the 5 authors it was, or someone not listed as an author. The word 'vacation' is not in the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02177.
Hug of death for me.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented over 100 people killed in the United States and Canada in attacks committed by extremists linked to the white supremacist movement since 2014.
google is your friend
Thanks to reading The Three Body Problem, I can imagine.
Just a reminder, the poor don't do the billing. Businesses do.
"Even when it’s not obvious to the user, tech companies are often engaged in what the designers call a “manipulation of visual choice architecture” that tilts users towards AI products."
I'm not surprised the people who invented dark patterns are using them.
I'm more interested in what the equity owners get.
edit: and the insurance companies
Beat me to it. This chart is only 1/2 complete. It doesn't show where the money goes after hospital care, for instance.
About 60 billion so far.
Abstract
Conservative political ideology is associated with social dominance orientation (SDO), right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), psychopathic propensities (PPs), and other malevolent dispositions, and reduced empathy. We examined the links between SDO, RWA, PPs and political ideology, and whether those who view Trump favorably reported higher PPs (or malevolent traits) and reduced empathy or benevolent dispositions. Two U.S. community samples were used; Sample 1 was white vs. minority status men (N = 1000, 32 % minority) and Sample 2 contained men and women (N = 8,047; 45 % male). Structural equation modeling was utilized to represent ideology in terms of right- vs. left-leaning orientation on social and economic issues, including participants’ views of Trump. Malevolent (+) and benevolent (−) dispositions and empathy disturbances were significantly linked with conservative ideology.
Immediately reminded me of this TED talk from 2008:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_...
But yeah, I don't just do what I'm told. Got kicked out of heaven for it.
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